If only you could point out when Pramila said that "I alone passed $15/hr" but you can't because she didn't. Jayapal like all the others who took a leadership role on the issue can legitimately claim to have fought for it despite your disgraceful nitpicking.

Once again you have nothing to say about the issues. Stick to your sex column, it'll better for all of us including your image.

And as we can see from comment 1, no matter how much you apologize, haters gonna hate hate hate hate hate

@2 You need to work on your reading comprehension if you believe that Dan Savage apologized for smearing Jayapal unfairly. In fact, he just reiterated his baseless comment about "Pramila Jayapal's attempts to claim all of the credit".

He hasn't apologized either for the continual stream of smears he directed at Sanders and his supporters, and Stein after that so you'll have to explain to me what there is to like rather than hate in all of this.

@1: You might wanna go back to my original post, which features a video of Pramila doing exactly what you say she never did—claiming sole credit for passing $15—as well as quotes from other members of the committee she served on expressing their disapproval and discomfort with her claims.

How does "some of you know me for passing a $15 minimum wage in Seattle" amount to claiming that she did it alone? This is nothing short of malfeasance for someone who ought to be a wordsmith.

Why don't you talk about issues for once rather than smearing people with half-baked propaganda?

I think it's a fair criticism- and let's not give Sawant all the credit either, it's not like she's the mother of the nationwide minimum wage increase movement.

No, zero credit for good Democrats who "always" supported a higher minimum wage like Murray. Richard Conlin was a good Democrat who "always" supported a higher minimum wage too, along with the whole rest of the City Council. But if Sawant hadn't come in and taken Conlin's seat from him, Seattle would never have passed $15 per hour. We'd have sat back and watched everybody else pass it -- because there was a nationwide movement -- and said we can't have that in Seattle. Seattle is different. Also Republicans. They exist, or something, so no $15/hr for you.

Seattle's *Democrats* would have held back the nationwide $15/hr movement, given the chance.
Sawant was mocked mercilessly by all the good Democrats for daring to speak of this absurd Fifteen! dollars per hour. So much money, Kshama. Grow up. A vote for Conlin is a vote for living in the real world, kids. Ed Murray would have stood there shoulder to shoulder with Conlin and the whole sniveling bunch and put a stop to $15/hr in Seattle.

Almost the whole Democratic party is made up of do-nothing panderers who are all talk, but are committed to the status quo. Fuck Ed Murray and all his ilk.

Don't expect change from any of these good Democrats without some powerful outside force goading them on. Their only saving grace is their weakness and cowardice. You can scare the little shits into doing the right thing, and that's what Sawant and the fast food workers are all about.

Yep, nothing's ever good enough, haters gonna hate hate hate hate hate, so just shake it off

/catchy tune! :)

@5, "some of you know me for passing a $15 minimum wage in Seattle" sure as hell sounds like she's claiming she passed it. So she's wrong twice: she didn't have much to do with pushing for it, and she wasn't on the Council who passed it.

I'm sorry Walkinshaw won't got to DC. He'd do a lot more there, just as he did a lot more in Oly.

@7 Couldn't agree more. It is not just Seattle, it is nationwide. Democrats continue NSA spying, the drone war, make the Bush tax cuts permanent, pass Obamacare instead of single payer, pass the dark act, will sign TPP when it is passed in the lame duck session, don't prosecute any wall street executives for the collapse/fraud, won't reschedule marijuana. They are more interested in keeping the status quo than actually creating any change. It is because they are elite and all of their friends are elite. All of their associates are elite. The only time they think about why people like Sanders or Trump get votes from the working class is when they are trying to get elected. When they get into office they go back to helping who donates the most. All while keeping the illusion that they are about change and helping the working class. That is why they have the CEOs of pharmaceutical companies or banks come to capitol hill to berate them and put on a show for the 6 o'clock news. Then when the spotlight is off that issue they move along like nothing happened and don't change a thing. Each side can blame each other while keeping everything mostly the same. Judging by how much support Trump and Sanders received people are getting sick of it. Change is coming. The income inequality problem is very real. I just hope the change comes in the form of someone like Sanders and not in the form of someone like Trump.